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Died. Ernesto Jaén Guardia, 65, Panamanian businessman-diplomat, who "just happened to be in Panama City" when pro-Axis strongman Arnulfo Arias was deposed on Oct. 9, 1941, was promoted by the Cabinet from Second Vice President to President of Panama and served for all of three hours; of a heart attack; in Panama City. Jaén Guardia became president at 1 p.m., bowed out at 4 p.m. the same day after changing his mind and turning the job over to Justice Minister Ricardo de la Guardia...
...owner of the Herald Tribune." An also-run suggestion of Keating's was no more enticed by the $40,000 post. Said Banker David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers and a prewar City Hall aide: "From my work with Mayor La Guardia, I have an idea what the job is. Frankly, I feel very happy at the Chase Manhattan Bank...
Detroit's pudgy Mayor Louis C. Mariani so much resembles New York's former Mayor La Guardia in his unorthodox approach to problems that Detroiters sometimes call Mariani "Our Little Flower." This spring, rather than sit back and bemoan slow auto sales, Mayor Mariani decided to do something about them. Off to 1,379 fellow mayors in cities from Vineland, N.J., to Yakima, Wash., went personal letters, urging them to step up purchases of city-owned cars, trucks and parts that would normally be bought after July 1. If replacements for some of the 80,000 vehicles used...
While her husband breasted the politi cal winds in Washington, Jacqueline Ken nedy, 31, deplaned hatless and coatless despite near-freezing cold at New York's La Guardia Airport, spent three gay days on the town. Usually accompanied by her sister, Princess Radziwill, wife of a Polish peer turned London businessman, Jackie looked more elegant each time she came through the revolving doors of the Carlyle Hotel. She supped with Art Dealer Harry Brooks, Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland and such socialite old friends as Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Her big evening was spent catching the popularly-priced ($3.95 top) City...
Gann also recalls the brief nightmare when three engines on a C-54 began to cut out just after he took off from La Guardia. He limped back to the runway-to find that the engineers had fitted his ship with experimental spark plugs, without warning him. Then there was the plane he was flying from Honolulu to Oakland. It vibrated strangely at odd moments. Days later he discovered that if he had slowed down cautiously, he would have surely crashed...